214 Quotes by S. E. Hinton

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.

The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

Dally was so real he scared me.

I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.